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NIGERIAN SPORTS TODAY
August 18, 2008

• Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Website
  
  Medals table
  Schedule
  Olympics blog
   
• Confederation Of African Football

 

• FIFA
   

• FIFA Globalcom Premier League
   

• EYINBA Globalcom Premier League
   

• BasketballTV

 
 

• Siasia Targets Beijing Olympic Football Gold
  Nigeria's Under-23 coach, Samson Siasia, is promising Nigerians the Beijing Olympic football gold. Daily Independent
   
• How Olympic team resolved indiscipline crisis
  Samson Siasia is, daily, acquiring experience as a manager and...Vanguard
   
• Nsofor dreams soccer gold
  DREAM Team IV stand-in captain, Obinna Nsofor believes the Nigerian U-23 team is good enough to win the gold medal of the men's football event of the ongoing Beijing 2008 Olympics. Tribune
   
• We won’t lose to Belgium - Odenwingie
  Scorer of Nigeria's first goal in the quarter-finals against Ivory Coast on Satuday, Peter Odenwingie has said the team would not lose to Belguim on Tuesday. Tribune
   
• Osayomi compounds Nigeria’s woes
  Nigeria recorded yet another failure yesterday as the country's last medal hope in the sprint event, Osayomi Oludamilola, crashed out of the women's 100m race coming, 8th in her group in 11.44secs. The female sprinter started the qualifiers in grand style on Saturday, when she came first with the best time of 11.14secs | The Sun
   
• RUBBISH!
  China came under criticism from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday after a British reporter was dragged away by police and detained for 20 minutes while covering a protest | The Sun
   
• Mbango Etone retains jump crown
  Francoise Mbango Etone successfully defended her Olympic triple jump title with a new Games record leap. BBC